But everything worked fine,
as I started it from bash with the following enviroment:
LOGNAME=php
TERM=dump
HOSTTYPE=i386
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin
HOME=/home/pages/php3.de
PROMPT_COMMAND=echo -ne "\033]0;"`whoami`@`hostname;echo - ;pwd`"\007"
SHELL=/bin/sh
PS1=[\u@\h \W]\$
SHLVL=2
_=/usr/bin/env